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- Title
The Trafficking-Technology Nexus.
- Authors
Musto, Jennifer Lynne; boyd, danah
- Abstract
Within some public policy and scholarly accounts, human trafficking is increasingly understood as a technological problem that invites collaborative anti-trafficking solutions. A growing cohort of state, non-governmental, and corporate actors in the United States have come together around the shared contention that technology functions as both a facilitator and disrupting force of trafficking, specifically sex trafficking. Despite increased attention to the trafficking-technology nexus, scant research to date has critically unpacked these shifts nor mapped how technology reconfigures anti-trafficking collaborations. In this article, we propose that widespread anxieties and overzealous optimism about technology's role in facilitating and disrupting trafficking have simultaneously promoted a tri-part anti-trafficking response, one animated by a law and order agenda, operationalized through augmented internet, mobile, and networked surveillance, and maintained through the integration of technology experts and advocates into organized anti-trafficking efforts. We suggest that an examination of technology has purchase for students of gender, sexuality, and neoliberal governmentality in its creation of new methods of surveillance, exclusion, and expertise.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HUMAN trafficking prevention; HIGH technology -- Social aspects; HUMAN trafficking; INTERNET; EXPERTISE -- Social aspects; POLICE surveillance; LAW enforcement; COMPUTER network resources; LAW enforcement -- Social aspects; INTERNET &; society; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 2014, Vol 21, Issue 3, p461
- ISSN
1072-4745
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/sp/jxu018